Immigration Voice - the Indian lobby that wrote the bill and is pushing it throughout Congress. They are incredibly racist and hypocritical.

They've recently launched an attack on senator Rand Paul because he was one of the people blocking their bill in Senate. They're calling him a human trafficker on Twitter and are accusing the nurse staffing agencies of the exact same things the Indian sweatshops have been doing over the past decade, which lead to their backlog

don't pretend it's going to be merit based when Hr1044 gets passed. It's simply going to be first come first serve based (how's that a merit? ), or whomever has the most patience and desperation....I would even argue that people with actual merit will look somewhere else since people with good merit can get good jobs in many other countries as well, whereas people with limited options are more likely to actually wait 10 years until they get their GC.

@TLead you must be kidding, right? Either this, or the IV has done really good job at misinforming people. HR1044 is the opposite of a merit based system. It would reward low level backlogged Indians from sweatshops at the expense of all other 190+ countries

It's not good at all. Already Indians have been abusing the EB1c managerial category and this has caused the deserving people under EB1 to wait as well. I don't think anyone from EB2/3 will have a comparable merit to some from EB1a/b. This country needs diversity and not scammers.

It's true that HR1044 is going to House vote next Wednesday. It may even pass. But don't panic. The bill is blocked in Senate by multiple senators. Further, the bill that goes to House is out of sync with the one that has been introduced in Senate. If they pass House they'll have to sync it up with the Senate one and then it will get blocked by C.G. and even more people.

What IV is doing right now is a stunt for donations. Their leadership and their overweight lawyer Leon have found a great way to make money out of the gullible backlogged community

Those lawyers and leadership will make peanuts out of the donations. Come on! They are wonderful people working for a good cause. They have been working for more than a decade to get this bill passed. One of the leadership is an American citizen, he does not have any incentives to work but he rather works for a good cause.

I wish more backlogged Indians come together to raise their voice and educate the congressmen about this serious crisis.

Indian fellows, join IV and contribute in every possible way. If you don't ask, you won't get anything.

When will be the better time line for passing the bill? I heard that after the October of this year, if it doesn’t pass, it will be very likely to die. I am just curious how the Congress process those bills?